Everyday Feminism - aka Everyday Autism

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To EF and their ilk, “activism” means autistic screaming about soggy knees while getting asspats from your social network. College might make you have to interact with people who don’t share your political philosophy, or even—get the fainting couch ready!—disagree with you. Even worse, they don’t go away when you tell them to check their privilege. Shock! Horror!

SocJus lives in its own ideological bubble that is becoming increasingly at odds with the rest of the world. And within that bubble, they are losing their ability to change the minds of the rest of the population. For example, when one of them tweets #killallmen, they don't really mean that literally. Right? Everyone in the group knows that, but the rest of us don't.

When you write off a large group of people as being too “problematic” to engage, what are your chances of affecting anything outside of your hugbox?
 
Wallace said:
For example, when one of them tweets #killallmen, they don't really mean that literally. Right?
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Wrong. Lots of them actually do.

It's a major problem of these idiots that they take seriously what people used to say ironically.

Hmm. Kind of like a warped mirror image of 4chan when you think about it.
 
IcyShoes said:
oh wow that article a few posts up from me saying premed is based on abstractions? wtf? between promoting self diagnosis and their shitty masturbation seminars this website is terrible!
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What's just as bad when one of the articles thought it was ok to explore non-binary gender by taking low-dose hormones. I forgot to mention in the college article was how the author complaining about how talking in professional manner is oppressive. While being tolerant of accents and speech impediments is good, there needs to be professionalism. The higher level your job is, the more that is expected of you and the more seriously you have to take it. I'm sorry you can't be loud, swear/hurl insults or speak in ebonics.
 
I know I posted a similar article before, but it inspired me to give my own counter argument. Meritocracy can be naive and create insensitivity and materialism, but their thinking creates its own dangerous thinking...

-Supports a victim mentality: While society isn't truly equal yet and there are people who have odds against them, but this thinking also teaches people that the world is against them and there is little chance of them making it. So why bother to try? Even if you aren't Fortune 500 material, you can still have value in society. This leads people to sell themselves short when they could be more.
-Creates its own entitlement: There's nothing wrong with getting help (I get SS), but the more "privileged" can only do so much. We can't just give you free tuition when you have a 2.8 grade average in high school. Try not to offend you. Or only hire people because of their skin color and let you have the final say in who gets hired and fired. We can help you, but its no good if you're not doing your half.
-Resentment towards success: Unless the person is in the sports, entertainment or activism industries, those that break out of this mentality (or at least try) and have some success are seen as sell-outs or assimilating. If you went to college, got a non-Mickey Mouse degree, became a small crimes attorney and make a comfortable middle-class living, you wouldn't be all that admired even if you were raised in the ghetto (and got some help).
 
The author can't resist falling back into SocJus dogma, undermining the whole message.

However, it’s equally important to understand that not all violence in a relationship is abuse – some violence is self-defense, which I would argue is an acceptable use of force.

So if my friend had said to me, “But it isn’t abuse when I hit him – I’m trying to stop him from hitting me,” that would be a totally different conversation.

Or if he had said, “But when I hit him, it’s because it’s the only way I can protect myself from his using his race and class privilege to hurt and control me,” that also would have been different – and more complicated.
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So violence is fine as long as she thinks he is using his whiteness or class to "hurt and control" her? That sounds like the perfect excuse to be violent whenever the author wants.
 
One party hitting the other without the other party defending themselves = Complicated.
It's amazing that they struggle with black and white morality so often.

Imagine the ten commandments as written by SJWs

Thou shalt not kill, unless your boyfriend is richer than you.
Thou shalt not commit adultery, unless that racialized dude is really hot.
 
An Ounce of Vagina said:
So violence is fine as long as she thinks he is using his whiteness or class to "hurt and control" her? That sounds like the perfect excuse to be violent whenever the author wants.
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The fact that violence is ultimate source of everything she hates implies she hasn't really given it much thought. I wonder it's because it would lead the conclusion that 'privilege' as she uses it becomes irrelevant in the context of real power, so she'd either abandon that section or alternatively grow as a person and write something more challenging.
 
I got my little bro to draw something emulating the style of Everyday Feminism, do you think he's ready for a job there?

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https://www.facebook.com/everydayfeminism/

the facebook comments are an Orwellian nightmare, to test the waters I posted something mildly critical in the most benign manner on a subject while conceding the point and it was deleted in under 10 minutes

also check this in relation to 'greysexual' from having no academic background.
This isn't about you. I repeat: This is not about you. It's hugely disrespectful to invalidate other people's sexual orientations simply because you can't be bothered to "accept new info". Also, I wouldn't rely on the field of psychology or academia in order for you to accept other people's identities as valid because historically they've been behind the times at best and hugely oppressive, heterosexist, and ableist at worst.
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God these people are thick.
 
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Yaoi Huntress Earth said:
Man, this person must be soooo much fun at family gatherings. Phooey on your family just wanting to having a fun, stress-free time where they can love and laugh. And if anyone has a different opinion than you, they're just misguided victims of white supremacy.
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If you get to eat macaroni and cheese on Thanksgiving, you don't get to complain unless it's crap.
 
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